{"id":451,"date":"2005-12-03T09:25:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-03T09:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/laineyd.wordpress.com\/2005\/12\/03\/this-is-bidding\/"},"modified":"2005-12-03T09:25:00","modified_gmt":"2005-12-03T09:25:00","slug":"this-is-bidding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/?p=451","title":{"rendered":"THIS is bidding?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Remember the old Lynn Redgrave commericals for SlimFast in the 1980s where the tag line was This is Living?)<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, Thursday I decided that I wanted McD&#8217;s. Funny how I just couldn&#8217;t come up with something better. I&#8217;m feeling better &#8211; I worked all day Friday so I wouldn&#8217;t waste any vacation time, but that was mostly to make sure my boss didn&#8217;t wreak any havoc while I was home Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>And now it&#8217;s Saturday. There are 1,000 things to do. Clean the living room. Laundry. Pick up the huge mess in my home office (upside to laptop = not having to go in there!). Pick up library book so I can read it.<\/p>\n<p>But I really don&#8217;t have the energy to do anything of value. The boy&#8217;s here this weekend and he&#8217;s in trouble for some recent school shenanigans so we can&#8217;t do anything fun. I guess this is the bad part of parenting, huh? I could talk more about the school stuff but I just don&#8217;t have the patience.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe I&#8217;ll just sit here and try to avoid doing anything!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Remember the old Lynn Redgrave commericals for SlimFast in the 1980s where the tag line was This is Living?) Anyway, Thursday I decided that I wanted McD&#8217;s. Funny how I just couldn&#8217;t come up with something better. I&#8217;m feeling better &#8211; I worked all day Friday so I wouldn&#8217;t waste any vacation time, but that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-really-deep-thoughts","category-the-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}